ADAPT YOUR LIFE. GO ZERO WASTE.

This week long food challenge will show you how to cook quick, healthy midweek lunches and snacks, whilst producing as little food waste as possible.

We’re all looking for ways to lower waste, but this can be so hard to priorities when you’re short on time in the middle of the week. This food challenge has been put together to help you plan ahead, eat well and cut down on food waste.

You’ll have a snack and lunch per day. The snacks store well, so will be made in bulk- depending on how much you eat, you can always take a few snacks into work with you!

7 things you need to know before you begin:

These meals have been designed to be used with a vegetable box delivery, though there is also a full shopping list if you’d like to purchase your own. This was to help save time, though if your budget is tight it may well be cheaper to buy the groceries from a supermarket. Here are some tips on how you can lower food waste whilst food shopping.

Dried ingredients can be purchased at a Zero Waste shop, where you can decant the ingredients straight into your own containers, and only pay for what you need. All the ingredients I used have been purchased from Plastic Free Pantry.

Take these meals and snacks into work in air tight containers, this can include a jar, box or container from a take-away

These meals are all vegan, add cheese and meats as you wish

Follow the meal plan in order to keep food waste to an absolute minimum

Below is a meal plan at glance. Book mark this page on your device, rather than printing it out to save on paper

Drink water with these meals! Use a lovely reusable bottle or glass you have in the office

THE MENU:

Sunday is the Funday. It’s all about the prep, to get you ready for the week. If you can’t spare time on the Sunday, you can prep on the Saturday, but I’d recommend freezing as much as possible. You will make date ball snacks, which you can customise how you wish. You will also assemble your meals for Monday on the Sunday. Click here to be taken to the preparation instructions

Freezing fruits and veggies is so simple, and I will give you tips of how to have better success with freezing- including how to prevent getting a massive frozen clump of berries! This potato pea curry is one of the easiest ever to make as you’ve pre roasted all the veggies already! Click here to be taken to the preparation instructions